Roanoke Colony

From the beginning both of these regions had very diverse and distinct identities. One major factor that separated the two regions were the settlers that came to the New World. This affected the colonies in almost every way possible, including economically, socially, and politically.

When a second voyage was sent in 1590, they found no trace of the colony Sir Raleigh established and the settlement is known as the “Lost Colony of Roanoke Island.” During his voyage of seeking a new colony, Sir Raleigh committed some aggressive acts towards the Spanish and King James 1 did not like this one bit. He was eventually charged with treason and sentenced to death, but his sentenced changed to imprisonment in the Tower. When he was released, he went behind the King’s back and invaded a Spanish territory.

However, despite the tragedy, everything would not go to waste. Franklin’s death had an effect on Britain’s society. Between 1847 and 1859, about 30 expeditions searched for the lost ships, sponsored and spearheaded by the Admiralty and Franklin’s wife. A meaningful and significant outcome of the Franklin expedition was the mapping of several thousand miles of unsurveyed coastline by expeditions searching for Franklin's lost ships and crew. Richard Cyriax, author of Sir John Franklin’s Last Arctic Expedition, noted, “The loss of the expedition probably added much more geographical knowledge than its successful return would have done.”

England was the last of the large European empires to begin their exploration of the New World. Their desire to discover new land spawned from their need for raw goods that was currently threatening to throw their economy out of balance, their victory in the Anglo-Spanish War which gave them the courage to challenge Spain, their need to find unsettled land for their younger population and their want to spread Protestantism (Schultz, 32). English settlement of North America began in 1585 with Sir Walter Raleigh and his settlement of Roanoke. Roanoke did not succeed as a settlement but Raleigh learned that Spain’s conquistador model of quick riches was not a correct model for English success. In order to succeed, England would have to setup settlements based on a model of plantations and agriculture.

John Winthrop is known for founding and leading of the Massachusetts Bay colony in new England. Before going abroad to the “new world”, “John Winthrop had practiced law in and nearby areas around London prior to his affiliation with the trading organization called the Massachusetts Bay Company. ”He struggled with the decision to abandon his home. Winthrop was very aware of the hardships that had claimed the lives of half the pilgrims 10 years earlier, who had settled in Plymouth. As a strict Puritan in the first governor of Massachusetts Bay colony, John Winthrop believed that they could establish a pure church in new England for the Puritans.

Through the years Arnold tried to find a place for himself in the British military but he was unable to. In 1785 Arnold traveled with his son Richard to New Brunswick, Canada, there they created a West Indies trade. After many business deals, the family returned to England. In London, Arnold kept trading with the with the West Indies at the time of the French Revolution and was captured for a while by the French because of the assumption he was spying. In the January of 1801, Arnold started to become very sick.

The History of the Dividing line was written in 1841 by William Byrd. Excerpt one from The History of the dividing line talks about some of the first Englishmen who went to the new colony, expecting it to be a bountiful country with little work to be done. Most of these first adventurers either starved or were killed off by the Indians. Several expeditions after the first ended the same way and reduced the want to sail to the new world. People of high rank were invited to people the almost abandoned colony.

The Indians didn’t want their land to be developed any more. Tribes tried to unite against the European’s, but this ultimately failed and the Indians were sold into servitude. The Glorious Revolution occurred in England in 1688, when Mary and William of Orange took the throne from James II. The Glorious Revolution has an enormous and undeniable impact on the colonies in North America, especially the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Essentially calling them heathens and godless barbarians, they initially had very skeptical encounters with them. The Plymouth colonists had a better time with the Natives as one of the initial contacts with the natives included a native by the name of Squanto. He actually had learned English and was sent to England as a curiosity and eventually found his way back to the Americas. He made the contact with the pilgrims and showed them how to survive in the new lands. This was after they had already lost a lot of men in the previous year and the colony was the verge of collapse.

Do you remember all the talk about the British taking over Nouvelle France, and the fear that we would lose our French culture? That war seemed to take forever, even though it was just seven years. Well my sister, the British did win in 1763, and our precious Nouvelle France is now called British North America. The British seem to be overjoyed to be in power, over here and back in Britain.

Nyasia Midgette October 2, 2017 HIUS-(221) LUO Roanoke: The Lost Colony When most people think of the early settlement they think of the first successful settlement, Jamestown, but this was not the first settlement in the New World. The settlement at Roanoke was the first attempt to colonize the New World. The settlement at Roanoke is often referred to as the “Lost Colony” because of its unusual disappearance. The reason people often do not know about the first settlement at Roanoke is because it was abandoned, forgotten, and lost. Roanoke Island is just off the coast of North Carolina.

The Jamestown settlement is located in Virginia, it was the first permanent english settlement. They decided to settle there because it was hard for enemies to reach them through the narrow channel, and the thick forest around them provided plenty of lumber and the water surrounding them provided fish. The first colony was founded by a group of investors by the name of the london company. They fell because of lack of preparation, sickness during the winter spread rapidly and many died. In the year of 1624 Virginia fell under the rule of a royal colony and existed under the authority of a governor chosen by the king of England.

“At the end of the first year, all of the surviving colonists get on a supply ship to go back to England.” This might have stemmed from the fact that the colonists turned on the natives that were supplying them with food to survive. John White returned to Roanoke in 1587, this time as governor of the colony. His journal from that expedition documents the increasing hostilities between the Algonquian Indians and the English settlers. In this excerpt, White relates one of the English colonists’ more devastating mistakes: inadvertently attacking and killing some of their own Indian

In 1497 a navigator for England named John Cabot found rich fishing grounds near Newfoundland, which he later claimed for England. English navigators and him continued to search for new ways for a northwest passage to Asia but with no success in the 1600s England began to settle on establishing colonies on the eastern seaboard of North America. In 1607 the English built their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. The colony was supposed to bring the British wealth and profit but in the first stages of the colony many colonists died of starvation and disease. The ones that survived only did because of the help of Native Americans.

THE LOST COLONY OF ROANOKE There are many theories for the lost colony of Roanoke, but no one knows where they went or what they did. Many have wondered but this is what i learned. Sir Walter Raleigh was one of the first to ask to for a colony in america. He wanted to go to Roanoke.